Health and Adult Social Care
The universityÂ's local volunteering service. It can provide you with volunteering placements in the local community that are rewarding, safe and supported.
A national organisation that offers a wide range of services for older people.
A group of local organisations that provide befriending services to a wide range of people at risk of isolation and loneliness. These mutually rewarding relationships are organised and supported by experienced and skilled befriending organisations who ensure that that the partnerships are effective, safe and structured.
Community Works helps local organisations and individuals across the city make a difference to local lives and issues. This can be anyone from community groups and voluntary organisations and volunteers to businesses and public sector organisations.
A local organisation that helps people learn to cook, to eat a healthy diet, to grow their own food and to waste less food. Advice around food poverty is also available on their website.
The volunteers are usually local people who give their time to help others and to improve the quality of the care offered to the patients at the 5 sites.
A local project that provide practical support, education and services for the unemployed, pensioners, unwaged & those in poor housing or on low income.
A national heart charity and independent funder of cardiovascular research. Coronary heart disease is the UK's single biggest killer but they are leading the fight against it. Their research has helped transform the lives of people living with heart and circulatory conditions.
A national volunteer-led humanitarian organisation that helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are.
A local centre offering different kinds of carers services working with and supporting young and adult carers in the city.
A national organisation that supports homeless young people by giving them a chance to turn their lives around, build firm foundations, and prepare for their future.
A national organisation that works in partnership with pet owners and community service volunteers. They provide practical help when any aspect of day to day care poses a problem - for example, walking the dog for a housebound owner. They seek to relieve the anxieties, problems, and sometimes injustices, faced by elderly, disabled and terminally ill people and their pets.